Paperback | December 15, 2008

This therapist guide outlines a 30-session cognitive-behavioural treatment for bipolar depression. It provides session-by-session instructions for helping clients decrease and prevent relapse. Bipolar disorder is extremely hard to manage and this program will help clients better preparethemselves for dealing with problems and high-risk situations. Treatment is comprised of four stages: a depression-focused phase (9 sessions), a treatment-contract phase, (4-sessions), a problem-list phase (13 sessions), and a well-being phase (4 sessions). This treatment also includes a componentfor families to help them understand the disorder and work together with both the therapist and the patient to get the best results from treatment.

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This therapist guide outlines a 30-session cognitive-behavioural treatment for bipolar depression. It provides session-by-session instructions for helping clients decrease and prevent relapse. Bipolar disorder is extremely hard to manage and this program will help clients better preparethemselves for dealing with problems and high-risk...

Michael Otto is a Professor, Center for Anxiety Disorders at Boston University. Noreen Reilly-Harrington is a Instructor In Psychology at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School. Jane N. Kogan is at the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.